Subspace confinement : how good is your qubit?

Devitt, Simon J. and Schirmer, Sonia G. and Oi, Daniel K.L. and Cole, Jared H. and Hollenberg, Lloyd C.L. (2007) Subspace confinement : how good is your qubit? New Journal of Physics, 9 (Oct). ISSN 1367-2630 (https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/9/10/384)

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Abstract

The basic operating element of standard quantum computation is the qubit, an isolated two-level system that can be accurately controlled, initialized and measured. However, the majority of proposed physical architectures for quantum computation are built from systems that contain much more complicated Hilbert space structures. Hence, defining a qubit requires the identification of an appropriate controllable two-dimensional sub-system. This prompts the obvious question of how well a qubit, thus defined, is confined to this subspace, and whether we can experimentally quantify the potential leakage into states outside the qubit subspace. We demonstrate how subspace leakage can be characterized using minimal theoretical assumptions by examining the Fourier spectrum of the oscillation experiment.

  • Item type:Article
    ID code:6213
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    29 October 2007
    Published
    Subjects:Science > Physics > Optics. Light
    Department:Faculty of Science > Physics
    Depositing user: Miss Darcy Spiller
    Date deposited:02 Jun 2008
    Last modified:11 Apr 2024 00:30
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/6213
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